2008 (continued)

• 5/1/2008 STScI-2008-19 21. Riccardo Giacconi to Receive National Inventors Hall of Fame's Lifetime Achievement Award Riccardo Giacconi, founding director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., will receive the 2008 Lifetime... (More)
• 4/29/2008 STScI-2008-15 22. Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 20 inches long and weighing 180 pounds. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately... (More)
• 4/28/2008 STScI-2008-18 23. STScI and JHU Astronomer Adam Riess Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) astronomer and professor... (More)
• 4/24/2008 STScI-2008-16 24. Cosmic Collisions Galore! Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes... (More)
• 4/10/2008 STScI-2008-17 25. Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading optical counterpart of a powerful... (More)
• 4/2/2008 STScI-2008-14 26. Astronomers Find Suspected Medium-Size Black Hole in Omega Centauri The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri glitters with the combined light of 2 million stars. The entire cluster contains 10 million... (More)
• 3/19/2008 STScI-2008-11 27. Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough... (More)
• 3/10/2008 STScI-2008-10 28. The Aesthetics of Hubble Images Showcased at Walters Art Museum Just as the early explorers ventured ever further into the oceans, recording the wonders they encountered, today's astronomers are probing farther... (More)
• 3/4/2008 STScI-2008-13 29. The Last Confessions of a Dying Star Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun-like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary... (More)
• 2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 30. Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains... (More)
• 2/15/2008 STScI-2008-12 31. STScI Astronomers to Head Two Studies of Next Generation Astronomy Missions Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected... (More)
• 2/12/2008 STScI-2008-08 32. Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest... (More)
• 2/5/2008 STScI-2008-07 33. Isolated Galaxy or Corporate Merger? Hubble Spies NGC 1132 The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 reveals the final result of what may have been a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past. Another possibility... (More)
• 1/23/2008 STScI-2008-06 34. Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating... (More)
• 1/15/2008 STScI-2008-05 35. NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories... (More)
• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-01 36. Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight in 'The Moth' What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical... (More)
• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-04 37. Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring... (More)
• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-03 38. The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the universe as part of a quest to understand... (More)
• 1/8/2008 STScI-2008-02 39. Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars Hubble Space Telescope's powerful vision has resolved strange objects nicknamed "blue blobs" and found them to be brilliant blue clusters... (More)

2007

• 12/18/2007 STScI-2007-45 40. Mars: Closest Approach 2007 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles – 88 million kilometers – away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures... (More)